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Event Date Venue Neighborhood Event type Notes Boston Marathon: Patriots' Day: Within the city, predominately on Commonwealth Avenue. (Finish at Copley Square.) Back Bay, Fenway-Kenmore, Allston/Brighton: Marathon: The world's oldest annual marathon, beginning in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, roughly 26 miles west of Boston.
A History of King's Chapel, in Boston: The First Episcopal Church in New England By Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1833) at Google Books; Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. Boston: Little, Brown, 1882, 1896. vol.1; vol.2. A Brief Sketch Of The History of King's Chapel (1898) at the Internet Archive
Pleased with the success of the mission, Father Healy recommended to the Bishop that the religious congregation should establish a mission-house in Boston. [5] That year, Archbishop John J. Williams invited the Redemptorists to Boston. In September 1869 the Redemptorists acquired a site in Roxbury, then known as the Boston Highlands, on Parker ...
St. Stephen's Church is a historic church in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. It was built in 1802–1804 as the New North Church or New North Meeting House and was designed by the noted architect Charles Bulfinch. It is the only one of the five churches he designed in Boston to remain extant.
First Church in Boston established. September 7 : Boston named. 1631 – Boston Watch (police) established. 1632 – Settlement becomes capital of the English Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1] 1634 Boston Common established. [2] Samuel Cole opened the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts on March 4. 1635 – Boston Latin School founded. [3]
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a former parish of the Catholic Church in Waltham, Massachusetts.It is noted for its historic church building, completed in 1922.A high quality example of Italian Renaissance Revival architecture, it is emblematic of the shift on Waltham's south side from a predominantly Protestant population to one of greater diversity.
September 18, 1987 Saint Augustine Chapel and Cemetery is a historic church on Dorchester Street between West Sixth and Tudor Streets in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts . Built in 1818–19, it is the oldest Roman Catholic church building in Massachusetts; the cemetery, established 1818 is also the state's oldest Catholic ...
The first Mass in Newton Upper Falls was celebrated by Fr. James Strain of Waltham in the home of James Cahill in Chestnut Street in the year 1841. Prior to this, it seems that Mass was celebrated for a railroad gang in Newton Lower Falls by Fr. Thomas O'Flaherty as early as 1832. [1]